Tir Cynnal and Tir Gofal Monitoring and Evaluation Programme: Brown Hare Farm-scale surveys
Welsh Government
Description
Dataset records observations of species collected whilst undertaking field survey for Tir Cynnal and Tir Gofal Monitoring and Evaluation Programme: Brown Hare Farm-scale surveys. Records have been aggregated to display the presence of observed species per 1km² as a single instance i.e. multiple instances of a species will only be represented once per 1km².
The dataset does not represent a national distribution and reflects a limited number of survey sites. More information can be found at: http://wales.gov.uk/topics/environmentcountryside/farmingandcountryside/farming/ schemes/glastir/tircynnal-tirgofal-monitoring-evaluation/?lang=en (EN), http://wales.gov.uk/topics/environmentcountryside/farmingandcountryside/farming/ schemes/glastir/tircynnal-tirgofal-monitoring-evaluation/?lang=cy (CYM).
Geographic Description
Site selection was restricted to selected sample sites within six Watsonian vice-counties: Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Glamorgan.
Purpose
Farm scale surveys for brown hare were designed to test the effect of the agri-environment scheme (AES) at a landscape scale, comparing AES farms to paired non-AES farms, where hare populations could not be influenced by any adjacent AES management.
Data quality
Data recorded by specialists under contract to Welsh Government. Records present in this data have been checked against digital data supplied before submission to the NBN Gateway. Note that there is bias inherent to the data collection method where multiple sample sites within a km grid-square may have been surveyed. The effects of this situation have been mitigated, in part, by aggregating data to display only 1 instance of a species per km grid-square. Absence of species is not shown within the data. Data was also checked using the NBN record cleaner.
Data reflects the quality of the records supplied by third parties in the fulfilment of "Tir Cynnal and Tir Gofal Monitoring and Evaluation Programme: Brown Hare Farm-scale surveys".
Methods
Survey methods are based on Langbein et al. (1999), with some amendments based on experience within Wales by the North Wales Wildlife Trust. Two 1 km transects were walked per farm visit, with at least 400 m between transects in order to minimise the chances of a hare flushed on one transect being re-recorded on the second.
Citation
Welsh Government ([Insert download year]). Tir Cynnal and Tir Gofal Monitoring and Evaluation Programme: Brown Hare Farm-scale surveys. Occurrence dataset on the NBN Atlas
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